Mankind is a member of the animal kingdom (if you do not accept this, return this book for a refund, you are immune to obvious fact and conclusions) with added capabilities making us a unique form of life on earth. Individual man shares the compelling need to survive and procreate with all other living things. In addition, mankind possesses intelligence, the ability to choose, the ability to communicate, the ability to cooperate and the ability to make tools.

Communication and cooperation are social attributes of man. These key survival skills can only be realized in a social setting, in the presence of other men. Thus, the whole of mankind is greater than the sum of the parts, by virtue of the fact that additional possibilities are enabled by individual people associating with others.